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Trustees at Nassau Community College are poised to file a lawsuit after the State\u00a0University of New York\u2019s Board of Trustees denied their presidential pick.<\/p>\n
At a special meeting on Sunday, the Nassau Community College Board of Trustees unanimously voted to allow the board chair to file a lawsuit challenging the SUNY board\u2019s decision, with one board member absent, Newsday <\/em>reported. Earlier this month, SUNY trustees voted unanimously, with three members absent, to reject Maria Conzatti, who has run the college as interim or acting president for almost four years. A SUNY official told Newsday<\/em> it was the first time the system\u2019s board disapproved a presidential nominee.<\/p>\n The resolution voted on asked that Conzatti\u2019s appointment by Nassau Community College\u2019s board be \u201cdisapproved\u201d with no further explanation. <\/p>\n \u201cSUNY is committed to excellent leadership for all of our campuses and the success of our students, and we will vigorously defend ourselves against any frivolous lawsuit,\u201d a spokesperson for the system said in a statement to Inside Higher Ed.<\/em><\/p>\n The college\u2019s Student Government Association also passed a measure on Monday expressing \u201cgratitude and appreciation\u201d for Conzatti while also acknowledging the SUNY board vote and encouraging the college to \u201cconduct an equitable, transparent and expeditious search for a new permanent president.\u201d<\/p>\n The conflict comes amid broader tensions between the college\u2019s faculty union and the administration over the consolidation of academic departments and a union contract that expired in August, among other issues. The union sued the college last year arguing the elimination of 15 department chairs violated state regulations, but a judge dismissed the case. The union has since appealed.<\/p>\n Nassau has also reported less-than-optimal student outcomes in recent years. It has the lowest two-year graduation rate and second lowest three-year graduation rate among community colleges in the SUNY system, 9.4\u00a0percent and 23.6\u00a0percent respectively. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Trustees at Nassau Community College are poised to file a lawsuit after the State\u00a0University of New York\u2019s Board of Trustees denied their presidential pick. At a special meeting on Sunday, the Nassau Community College Board of Trustees unanimously voted to allow the board chair to file a lawsuit challenging the SUNY board\u2019s decision, with one<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[3289,19949,1428,3888,4105,17244,1162],"class_list":{"0":"post-35382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education","8":"tag-lawsuit","9":"tag-nassau","10":"tag-pick","11":"tag-presidential","12":"tag-prompts","13":"tag-rejected","14":"tag-threat"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}